Looks like someone hit the wrong button!!!

http://www.newsfilter.org/user_submit/show.php?id=4411

http://www.newsfilter.org/user_submit/show.php?id=4412

That could have ended up in a big mess :/

OOPS!!

Looks like something for the boys of CKY (camp kill yourself)

Looks like the jet wasn't the only one shooting a projectile.

are those real images? I have always doubt the first picture to be fake

I like the way the guy in the first picture is running like hell!!

Women drivers... *sigh*

:: spots HB ::

:: runs because of the joke ::

hard to say if theyre real, velocity of an AIM 9 is pretty high, its be rediculously difficult to happen to be there with a camera, and after the first shot get a follow up like the second especially in focus, but hey ya never know either way its amuzing

well i think cameras controlling each departure (fist pic)
and each arrival (second pic) are quite justified


anyway the pics ar great but i do too doubt
about that being a true pic

good point budokan, im not trying to say im an expert on this, just spewing out what the cogs turning brought to mind

George W. landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln

He couldnt fly an F18 if his life depended on it

ok everyone missed the obvious reasons it is a fake... #1 i believe that missle requires a lock on before it will launch and if you doubt that let me say this.. its a rock where are the flames and why did it fall to the deck before starting away? they launch directly from the wing no need to fall at all

I speak as someone who has never spent 20 years on a carrier and has seen Top Gun 3 times that could be real or fake. Also I don't think most of us could fly an F-18 if our life depended on it.

Try me lol....the hardest part would be getting it started...after that its all fly by wire, hard to get one of those babies in a stall (exceeding max angle of attack for you non pilots) or flameout for that matter. Of course, you've got another problem when its time to land haha...unless you manage to turn on the autoland, but you'd better know the ILS frequency or ur really screwed....ok im done babbleing

Yet another reason i love it here..i learn something new everytime i come here..I come to look at tits and learn about missles and aircraft wings on aircraft carriers..Isn't WBW awesome

hahha totally! i came here for tits and found this crowd of cool folks...and a webboard with people that actually have respect and common sense...for the most part anyways...

but yeah i guess im the resident aviation guy....anime to, till I die or you find someone better.

they launch directly from the wing no need to fall at all
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I do not doubt you, but I thought that those fell away from the jet and then ignited.
That would explain the release without the ignition of the propulsion system. Then the enertia of the projectile coupled with the quick deceleration of the jet as it lands and is hooked on the cable, would alow the projectile to pass the jet.

Just theory with very little actual hands on experience.

i think it was a hard landing and it jarred the missle lose. the jet stopped, the missle didn't.